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USRRC

The 2024 USRRC Tackled California Canyon Roads and High Desert Challenges

Take three days, three National RoadRallies, determined competitors in four classes, stunning landscapes, and great roads. Mix carefully. Add perfect fall weather and an experienced event committee. What do you get? Well, great competition and satisfying fun: To wit, the 2024 United States RoadRally Challenge® (USRRC), which took place Nov. 8-11, 2024, headquartered in Lancaster, […]

USRRC

Ready, Set, Go! The Organizers Are Ready for the 2024 USRRC, Are You?

With just a month to go before the first car rolls from the start for the 2024 United States RoadRally Challenge® (USRRC), taking place Nov. 9-11, 2024, in Lancaster, CA, everything, reports event chairman Joe Akerman, is “pretty much” ready to go. “We plan to do our final checkout three weeks before the event,” he […]

RoadRally

Searching for Driver’s Ed Time, This Father-Daughter Team Turned to RoadRally

Question: What do you do when you’re 15, about to embark on qualifying for your all-important driver’s license and need some 50 hours of real-world, behind-the-wheel experience in a vehicle with a responsible, licensed adult in the passenger seat? Answer: You run SCCA® RoadRallies. And that’s exactly what Central Illinois Region’s Lucy Schnippel has been […]

USRRC

It’s a USRRC Hat Trick for Duea & Crittenden

Oklahoma Region’s Jim Duea and Milwaukee Region’s Jim Crittenden are both veteran RoadRallyists with loads of experience in the sport, as both competitors and organizers, but neither in their long years of SCCA® competition has won a United States RoadRally Challenge® (USRRC) title. Over the Oct. 19-22, 2023, weekend, as a RoadRally team, they changed […]

RoadRally

19th SCCA RoadRally Challenge Crowns Three Champion Teams

Contributed by James Heine Three National championship teams were crowned at the 19th annual SCCA United States RoadRally Challenge (USRRC) on Sunday, Oct. 20, in Fredericksburg, Va. Sunday’s awards ceremony capped three days and some 600 miles of rallying through the historic Virginia countryside surrounding the city that dates back to the colonial era. In […]